Understanding the Site Characteristics
Urban Landscape Futures 2023
Weaving Through Wilderness: Connect, Experience and Sense
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Public space, Biodiversity, Gandhinagar, wilderness, weaving with nature, sabarmati riverside
Author: Tanay Chopra
The concept behind ‘Weaving Through Wilderness’ is to Immerse yourself in the wild beauty of nature, where all your senses awaken. Explore the magic of navigating through the wilderness, where you can witness stunning views, enjoy delicious tastes, breathe in intoxicating scents, touch the earth with your fingertips, and listen to nature’s harmonious melodies.
Considering the unique wilderness and habitat for various species, the plan develops small interventions for sitting and sighting different species. Considering the site’s ecology, the infrastructures use natural materials, such as bamboo, bavad stems, and dried-up trees.
The project has kept some areas under conservation, thereby limiting access. Overall programs for the site include a nursery, trails, pavillions, watchtowers, and decks. To create a heightened sensorial experience, the planting palette along the trails and the night trail is designed with flora that attracts species or gives a particular smell and blossoms at different times and seasons.
Mapping Flora Fauna along Gandhinagar Riverside and Mapping Existing Site Conditions
Gandhinagar is a planned city; the tertiary streets have lots of potential but must be harnessed. These streets act as a continuous cycling and walking route and connect to different ends of J road. Similarly, a lateral route has been proposed from Indroda Park to the other end of Borij Village.
The axos represent the various site characteristics and the flora- fauna.
Concept Diagrams
Exploratory sketches and diagrams
The site includes a nursery, trails, pavilions, watchtowers, and decks. The planting palette along the trails and the night trail is designed with flora that attracts species or gives a particular smell and blossoms at different times and seasons.
The part plans explore the interaction between the architecture and the flora-fauna
The sections explore the interaction between the architecture and the flora-fauna
Planting Palette according to the different seasons and times of blossom and foraging species
Views representing the architectural elements constructed using the dried up tree stems, bavad stems and bamboo so that it blends in with the surroundings as well as it will act as nesting areas for birds:
1. The Night Trail: The night trail is elevated and is surrounded by the trees that either blossom at night or attract nocturnal species like bats, porcupines, hedgehogs and moths. Along the night trail there are seating and observing areas with nesting around.
2. The Pavilion: The pavilions are areas a placed near ravines and wetlands attracting nilgais, peacocks and deers. The trails leading trail leading towards the pavilion is surrounded by flowering species attracting bees and butterflies.
3. The Deck and the Watchtower: The deck is creates and enriching experience of observing the flamingos and the painted storks nesting around the riparian edge.